The award is granted each year to theses with a topic related to Helsinki, Helsinki residents or the city’s services. The City of Helsinki aims to reward theses from several academic disciplines. This year, the recipients of the awards were picked from among 18 candidates that met the application criteria, and the awards granted were worth EUR 500 each.
The award criteria include the quality of the thesis, a link to Helsinki and the university-awarded grade. Innovative approaches and new perspectives are also appreciated. The City of Helsinki has granted thesis awards since 1992.
This year’s thesis awards were presented to:
Helmi Anttila: Helsinki’s horrible creatures: Medieval and fantasy images in Helsinki’s Art Nouveau ornamentation, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Humanities, Master’s Programme in Cultural Heritage.
Roban David Colyer: Allowing Cultures to Take Root: Tales from a Diverse Foodscape in East Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts, Master’s Programme in Urban Studies and Planning.
Anna Lehtonen: Understanding pluvial flood risk and adaptation through a social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) approach: The case of the city of Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Master’s Programme in Environmental Change and Global Sustainability.
Emmi Volanen: Online calibration of microscopic traffic simulation — with integration of intersection-based near real-time floating cardata, Aalto University, School of Engineering, Master's Programme in Spatial Planning and Transportation Engineering.
Haiyu Dongfang: Perceived Traffic Safety Assessment for Pedestrians and Cyclists in Helsinki Using Street View Imagery, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, Master’s Programme in Geography.
Lucas Magnusson: Urban forestry and tree databases: The role of airborne laser scanning for individual tree parameter extraction and its limitations, Aalto University, School of Engineering. Master's Programme in Geoinformatics.
Saana Neulasniemi: Traffic safety of school journeys in Helsinki - Assessing the traffic environment of school surroundings, Aalto University, School of Engineering. Master's Programme in Spatial Planning and Transportation Engineering.
Pasi Okkonen: Spatial distribution and associations between socioeconomic disadvantage and electronic gambling machine accessibility and expenditure in the Helsinki metropolitan area, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science. Master’s Programme in Geography.
